Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisans go further and claim that Nehru speaks for all Asia. This is manifest nonsense. Nehru does not speak for Mao's China, for Japan, for the Philippines, for Formosa, for Korea, for Thailand, for North or South Viet Nam, for Afghanistan, for Pakistan. His influence is principally felt in Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya and Indonesia...
...People are talking too much about July 20," said South Viet Nam's doughty little President Ngo Dinh Diem. "Dates aren't important, but action is." Last week in Diem's resurgent country, July 20 came and went. There was no disorder, no rioting, no sudden blow by sneaker-wearing Communists from the North, nothing to mark the fact that July 20, 1956 was in effect the date accepted after the Geneva Conference of 1954 for elections to unite North and South Viet...
...outvote the free South, numbering 10.5 million. The interim two-year period was primarily designed as a breathing space in which the French were able to pull their troops out gracefully with a minimum loss of face and a maximum chance of later trade with the future all Communist Viet...
...from the six nations Nixon had visited on his voyage around the world. Travel-weary but smiling, Dick Nixon greeted old friends, but kept his conclusions to himself until he could fly to Gettysburg for a report to the man who had sent him hopping from the Philippines to Viet Nam, Formosa, Thailand, Pakistan and Turkey...
...army all his own, recruited from the Hoa Hao, a sect which successfully combined religion and pillage. To dramatize his hatred of the French, he chopped off the end of a finger and called himself Ba Cut. In protest against the Geneva conference that split Viet Nam, he refused to cut his hair. Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back country, declared he would lop off the head of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. But last April Diem's army captured the rebel general, and the problem of whose...